People v. Lopez

The defendant has been charged in an indictment voted by the Grand Jury of the Extraordinary Term with 24 counts of criminal contempt in the first degree arising out of his refusal to answer 24 questions asked of him before the Grand Jury and which he had been directed to *158answer by the foreman and the Justice by whom the Grand Jury had been empaneled.

The defendant is an attorney who in 1973 and 1974 represented various individuals who were called before a Grand Jury investigating the now well-known disappearance of huge quantities of "French Connection” narcotics from the office of the Police…